Now, this is a movie!!!
The Lost Weekend, directed by the amazing Billy Wilder, is just what the doctor ordered after the last sad attempt at watching a movie (see Dangerous Beauty post). This is a high quality film about the desperate life of a chronic alcoholic and his last binge weekend, complete with flashbacks and hallucinations! I already have a favorite quote:
It shrinks my liver, doesn't it, Nat? It pickles my kidneys, yeah. But what it does to the mind? It tosses the sandbags overboard so the balloon can soar. Suddenly I'm above the ordinary. I'm competent. I'm walking a tightrope over Niagara Falls. I'm one of the great ones. I'm Michaelangelo, molding the beard of Moses. I'm Van Gogh painting pure sunlight. I'm Horowitz, playing the Emperor Concerto. I'm John Barrymore before movies got him by the throat. I'm Jesse James and his two brothers, all three of them. I'm W. Shakespeare. And out there it's not Third Avenue any longer, it's the Nile. Nat, it's the Nile and down it moves the barge of Cleopatra.
Also, is it bad that this movie made me want a drink? Yeah, that's probably bad. But the movie is SOOOO good.
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